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Silicon Valley’s self-styled futurists build marvelous machines. Their politics, though, recycle discredited ideas. Jill Lepore explains

Fertility clinics are offering young mitochondria in controversial fertility technique

Federal Judge Halts Minnesota's Prediction Market Ban, Signaling Other States' Efforts Might Be Illegal Too

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Before puritanism and personality cults made it boring, affect theory brimmed with real intellectual potential. Laura Kipnis explains

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